Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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This story stabs into Spitzen-on-the-Dein and its people at various times during world wars and an American occupation. The U. S. military government is administered by a venereal-diseased motorcyclist named Leevey. The book's narrator--who only narrates for a dozen-odd pages throughout--eventually kills Leevey, overthrows the occupation, and founds a new Germany...
...most likely candidate for the post (out of some 30-odd St. Valentines listed in The Biographical Dictionary of Saints) is one M. Valentine. He was a Roman priest who loved brotherhood (and sisterhood), but unfortunately he lost his head over the whole matter on February 14 in either 269 or 278 A.D., depending on what book you look it up in. This explains why he became a martyr and did not die a natural death...
Most notable Surinamers are the 20,000-odd Bush Negroes, whose ancestors rebelled at plantation slavery and fled inland centuries ago. Tall and agile, they range the rivers in dugout canoes and carry on indifferent agriculture in burned-over clearings. This week, having paid his respects to Paramaribo and looked over the Moengo bauxite mines, Prince Bernhard prepared for a launch trip up the muddy Surinam River to powwow with the barrel-chested Bush-Negro chieftains...
Fission v. Fusion. The new-style "fusion" of hydrogen and the old-style "fission" of uranium have a family resemblance. Both depend on the odd and unexplained fact that atomic nuclei do not weigh as much as the sum of the individual nucleons (protons and neutrons) which they contain. It is as if a dozen apples in a paper bag did not weigh as much as the same apples spilled out on the kitchen table and weighed separately...
...street of Rutherford, NJ. (pop. 16,000) stands the clapboard home and office of Dr. William Carlos Williams, M.D., 66, the best-known pediatrician in town. Doctoring is a busy life, but it is not enough for Williams: for over 40 years, on prescription blanks, old envelopes and other odd scraps of paper, he has been jotting down his impressions. A lot of the jottings turned out to be poetry...